Stargate, geocentric location
Interesting and unique landmarks and events in New Hampshire. A strange geocentric location known as a "Stargate"; Plane whose crash wreckage can be hiked to in New Hampshire mountains; and our Governor past, Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet, site of his Mansion farmstead, which was lost in a fire.On 13 June 1775, after his house was surrounded by a mob of armed men seeking to arrest a Loyalist militia officer, Wentworth and his family fled to Fort William and Mary, which was under the guns of the Scarborough. Conditions continued to deteriorate, and Wentworth boarded the Scarborough and sailed for Boston on 23 August. After sending his family to England, he remained in the city until it was evacuated to Halifax in March 1776. He remained with the fleet until New York City was captured in September 1776, and finally sailed to England in early 1778. The New Hampshire government established after his departure seized most of his property, but specially reserved to the family portraits and furniture from the Portsmouth mansion.
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